Hair curler



June 30, 1925. 1,544,428

0. w. BRENIZ-ER 4 HAIR CURLER.

Filed June 17, 1922 INYVENT'OR: '1 "son TK'Brewizer E! MAN,

. TORNE Patented June 30, 1925.

" UNITED sures PATENT OFF-i d.

eesq i W- Barma or rH LepELr iIe. ra u ma. assrenoe or NErHALE o annxi iynnarr. Born, or PHILADELPHIA, PEN SYLV IA,

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Azpplicationifiled-June 17, 1922: Serial No. 568,983.

To-aZZ-whomzt mayconcern:

Be it known that I, Orson W. Est mate, a citizenof the. United Stateaiesidingat Philadelphia, in the county oii. Philadelphia, and. State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and, useful Improvements in Hair Curlers, of which the. following is. a. specification. i 1

The object of this invention is to pro vide a hair curler of novel, simple and. eflicient construction having provision whereby the hair may be clamped between thearms of a clamping device. and wrapped around or upon the device by/t urningJoI: twisting the device and thereafter held. in place upon the device by a. suitable hair confining. arm.

The. invention aims to provide. a curler,-

of few parts which may be manufactured at a low cost and it. consists in the novel; con? struction, combination and; arrangement of parts. hereinafter described and; particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention,

Figure 1: is a. perspective view of a hair.

curler embodying my invention, the. same beingv shown in theopen position.

Figure 2 is a side view thereof in the closed position.

Figure 8. is a bottom view of the curler in the closed position.

Figure 4. is a transverse section of the curler on line.4. of Fig. 2.

Figure 5 is a side View ofthe curler. showing the clamping device thereof closed upon hair therein and showing the hair. confining armin thee-pen position.

Figure 6:is a side viewofi the curlershowing. hair wrapped around the clamping (le vice and showing the hair confining arm in the closed position preventingithehairfrom being unwrapped from the clamping devlce. I

Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view on the lines 7. of Fig. 5, looking in the direction indicated by the'arrows.

Referring to the drawings, the hair curler comprises a clamping device 2 and a hair confining arm 3 connected thereto.

The clamping device 2 is preferably formed of a single piece of metal andit comprises two arms 5 and 6 which are connected at adj acentends by a small bowed or loop portion 7. In the normal or open condition of the curler the. arms 5 and 6- diwerge from their connected. ends t0;pre sent. an open space. between them, as shown inFig.1. 1

The arm 5 is flat and; flexible. and, inits normal" Condition it is bowed,.as shown in Fig. 1;. The arm 6 is. stiffened by.-.being- 'shajped into.concavo-convex formv incross-i section, as clearly shownin Fig; t, so that it will; always remain. in the. straight condition shown. in the drawings.

The free end of. the. flexible arm 5 has hook 8. formed thereon which is adapted to embrace the free end of the stiff ar-m fi when the clamping device. is closed, as shown in. Figs. 2, 3, 5 andfi; andthe free end of the. hook 8- is tapered: or pointed so that itmay enter the groove in the bottom of the stiff arm- 6 and hold thev free-ends of the; arms; 5 and 6 against accidental lateral displacement.

The hair'confining arm. 3 is made flat and flexible, and, in its. normal condition, it is bowed similarly to the. arm 5. One. end of the. arm 3 has a loop. 9v formed therein and it is. pivotally connected to the free end ofthe. arm 5 by a link 10' extending through the loop, 9- of thearm- 3 and thehook 8. of the arm 5. The other orfree end? of: the arm 3 has a hook- 11 formed thereon which is adapted to embrace the loop 7 or connected ends of the arms 5, and 6: of the clamping, device2. as. shown in Figs.- 2, 3 and 6,;when. the curler. is closed. The free end of the book 11 is tapered-or pointed so that it may enter thegroove in the bottom ofthe. stiff arm 6. and: hold. the connected ends ofthe arms. 3 and. 6: against accidental lateral displacement. a

The free endportion of thearm 3', bacltof the hook 11 has its side portionsfiared outwardly, at 15, to present flanges.- or. projections which may be engaged by the-finger or thumb of the user inv moving. the: arm. 3 laterally into or, from engagement with. the connected ends of-the arms 5.and 6;

The operation of the curler isas-follows: The free, end portion of the lock ofhair to be curled is placed between the clamping arms 5 and 6 and the free. ends of the arms are then sprung toward each other, causing relatively to each other, asshown inI ig. 5.

This done the entire-curler, in the condition shown in Fig. 5, is rotated or turned to .wind or wrap thelock of hair around the arms 5 and 6 of the clamping device, and, .thereafter, thearm 3 is moved back over thearms 5 and 6 and its free end is sprung toward the loop 7 and the hook 11 is slipped around the loop 7 and adjacent ends of thearms. 5 and 6 by a lateral movement of one or more of the parts, thereby causing the arm 3 to be bowed around the hair T1 12 previously wrapped around the -arms 5 and 6 and con fining the hair between the arm 3 and the clamping device and prevent-ingthehair frombeing unwrapped from the arms 5-and 6'while the curler is in service. After,the

hair has remained in the curler 'asuificient length of time to curl the hair, the curler is removed from the hair by first disengaging the hook 11 from the arms 5 and 6, carefully unwrapping the hair from the same and then disengaging the hook 8 from the arm 6 and thereby releasing the clamped ends of the curled hair from the curler. v

The arm 6 is stiff and substantially nonflexible, and the resilient qualities of the metal forming the arms 3 and 5 is such as to cause-the hooks 11 and 8 to engage the arm 6 andremain in the groove in the bottom of the arm when the curler is closed either with or with no hair therein, by the tendency of the-arms and 5 to resume their'normal condition, as shown in Fig. 1.-

When the arm 3- is closed over the hair 12 the body of the hook 11 is opposite to the adjacent end ofthe stiff arm 6, and thereby prevents accidental disengagement of the hook-11 fromthe arm 6 by the widening o-f the space between the arms 3"and 6 which might occur if the stifl'arm 6 were flexible.

"I claimas my invention g '1'. In a haircurler, the combination of a hair clamping devicecomprising a pair-of clamping arms connected at one end of the device and provided with means to detachably connect the arms at the other end of the device, a hair confiningarm, a link connect ing one end of the hair-confining armto' one end of the device, and means to detachably connect thehair confining arm to the other 'end of the device. a

2. In a hair curler, the combination of a hair clamping device comprising a pair of clamping arms connected at one end of the device, the free end ofone of said arms having 7 a hook formed thereon to 'detachably connect it to the free end of theother of said arms, a hair confining arm having a loop :formedfon one endthereof, alink extending through said hook and said loop and connecting one end of the hair confining arm to one end of the device, and "means to detachably connect the hair confining arm to the other end ofthe device.

3. In aihair' curler, thecombination'of a hair clamping device comprising a pair of clamping arms connected at oneend-rofthe I device, the free endof oneof saidaiahs-having a hook" formed thereon to detachably connect it tothe free end ofthe other of said arms, a hairconfining :arm" having a loop formed on the end thereof,=alink extending through. said .hook'-.and said-loop andcona necting one end of thehair confining armto one end of the device, and a hook on the otherend portionof the hair confining arm to detachablyconnect it to the other, end

portion of the device. 4. In a hair curler, the combination of'a hair clamping device comprising a flexible arm 'and'a relatively stiff arm connected at' one end of the device and provided with means to detachably connect them at .the other end of thetdevic e,and a flexible hair confining arm connectedtoone end of the device and'having a hook formed on .thefree endthereof and adapted to embrace the stiff arm, of the device at the other end of the de viceand thereby be prevented from being disengaged therefrom by the outward bow ing of the hair confining arm.

K5, In hairtcurleigthe combinationof a hair 'clampin :device comprising a gfiexible arm and are atively stifi arm connected at one end" of the device and provided with other end of the device, and a flexible hair confining arm connected to'one end of the device and having a hook formed on the free -means to detachably connect? them. at the end thereof and adaptedto embrace the. stiff. 1 arm of the device at the other end of the deQ vice and thereby be prevented from being.

disengaged therefrom by-the outward bowing of the hair confining arm the stiff arm having a longitudinal, groove ftliQIGlIl, and

the free end'of the hook beingpreventedby the walls of the-groove from being displaced laterally of the device when the hook is engagedwith the stiff arm. i

hereto. 7

ORSON W. BRENIZ RI ion . a V 1 In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 

